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Big results require big ambitions.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos men are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
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Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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Learning many things does not teach understanding
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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What is divine escapes men’s notice because of their incredulity.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
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The sun is new each day.
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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The only constant is change.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
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The only constant is change.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can’t cure immediately]
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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The only thing that is constant is change.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished….
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations…
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way.
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Nature is wont to hide herself
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
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It is in changing that things find purpose.
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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things
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Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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One cannot step twice in the same river
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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All things are in a state of flux.
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To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they
wish.
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For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice …
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There is nothing peranent except change.
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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Character is our destiny.
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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
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It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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It is wise to agree that all things are one.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
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The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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A blow to the head will confuse a man’s thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
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May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
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War is the father of all things.
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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
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The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
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Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed… Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist… It is in changing that things find repose.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Nature loves to hide.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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Change is the only constant.
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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The path up and down is one and the same.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: “Present, they are absent.”
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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Not I but the world says it: All is one.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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The seeing have the world in common.
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche… Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water… The psyche lusts to be wet.
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Things keep their secrets.
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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The fairest harmony springs from discord.
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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Everything is in flux.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish
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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
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He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
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When is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same… You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before
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Nothing is constant except change
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There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: ‘The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.’
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The only constant in life is change
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
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War is the father and king of all,
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
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All entities move and nothing remains still
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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– Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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The only thing constant is change
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
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It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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